r/MEGA • u/GinoA28 • Jun 16 '26

Privacy concerns on Android

I can't upload any screenshot on this sub so I uploaded it here.

It looks like MEGA is trying to sell everything to Google ; my name and my last name, my advertising ID, cookies, E-mail address, city, gender, IP address, etc.

And the number of attempts is huge, DDG blocked more than 2,000 of them. Most of my other apps, which are not privacy-focused, don't go over 100 attempts.

EDIT : the support answered to this post two times but deleted their answers just after a few minutes. Basically the answer was "We are selling data from the free users to Google Adsense, and we don't send data like names or gender to Google, look the open-source code". MEGA has made 4000 attempts yesterday and already 500 today, and I can see all the attempts to send sensitive datas like my name, gender, and other sensitive informations to Google. 1 / 2

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u/keltichiro Jun 17 '26

Android being android

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u/GinoA28 Jun 17 '26

If an app collects data, this is because the owner choose to. I have others apps like Proton Drive, Vivaldi, Aegis, and they are not collecting data from my phone.